11 words for happiness you need to know

I’m a sucker for a bit of a lexicon lesson (I studied linguistics at university for half a second before realising short story writing was much easier). And there is something delicious about discovering new words for happiness – in any of its forms.

Tim Lomas has launched the Positive Lexicography Project – an online glossary of untranslatable words for wonderful things. Tim, from the University of East London, scoured the internet and asked family and friends to gather a whole load of wonderful untranslatable words, and then he studied dictionaries and academic papers to define each and every one.